WorksheetsReconstruction
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 1hrs 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which Amendment gave citizenship to the African Americans?
a)
12th
b)
13th
c)
14th
d)
15th
2.
What did Rutherford B. Hayes do that ended reconstruction?
a)
Sent more troops to the south
b)
Override Veto's
c)
Removed the Military from the south, not giving protection to African Americans
d)
Did nothing
3.
Servants, Farmers and Share-Croppers were jobs which group of people had?
a)
African Americans
b)
White Men
c)
Government Officials
d)
Old Women
4.
Which Amendment gave African Americans the Right to Vote?
a)
13th
b)
14th
c)
16th
d)
15th
5.
These laws allowed for Segregation in Public Places such as schools, theaters, and Restaurants!
a)
Black Codes
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Civil Rights Act of 1871
d)
16th Amendment
6.
This group helped educate African Americans, provide legal aid and fed former slaves.
a)
KKK
b)
Freedman's Bureau
c)
Radical Republicans
d)
Democrats
7.
Which amendment outlawed slavery?
a)
13th
b)
14th
c)
15th
d)
22nd
8.
What effects did Poll Taxes and Literacy Taxes have on African Americans Males?
a)
They had to pay or take test inorder to vote.
b)
They needed to pay or pass these in order to become citizens.
c)
It prevented them from using the same doors and bathrooms as whites.
d)
None!
9.
What laws prevented African Americans from Equal Rights during Reconstruction
a)
Civil Rights Acts
b)
Black Codes
10.
Who is someone who went to the south from the North and stole from the south
a)
Scallywag
b)
KKK
c)
Carpet Bagger
d)
Racist
11.
What was an issue the South had after the civil war?
a)
They lost a lot of men
b)
They kept together as the Confederacy
c)
The part of the country was in ruins
12.
This amendment gave citizenship and protection to Naturally born Citizens and previous Slaves
a)
13th
b)
14th
c)
15th
d)
16th
13.
The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
a)
Amnesty
b)
Reconstruction
c)
13th Amendment
d)
Freedmen's Bureau
14.
Lincoln’s VP who became President after assassination. He also believed in Reconstruction but was not strict on Southern states.
a)
Andrew Johnson
b)
Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Rutherford B. Hayes
d)
James A. Garfield
15.
A change in a bill or law
a)
Impeach
b)
Amendment
c)
A Big Change
d)
Modification
16.
Passed in 1865, the amendment outlawed slavery
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
17.
Insulting nickname for a Northerner who went South after the Civil War
a)
Yankee
b)
Carpetbagger
c)
Blues
d)
Yank
18.
Law that gave Americans the right to sue anyone trying to restrict their constitutional rights
a)
Dred Scott Decision
b)
Constitutional Law
c)
Civil Rights Act of 1871
d)
All American Act
19.
A secret society of ex-Confederates who used intimidation to return political power to white men
a)
Freedom Riders
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
d)
Radical Republicans
20.
Unfair laws thatlimited the rights of black americans
a)
jimm crow laws
b)
black codes
c)
segregation
21.
former slaves
a)
hate group
b)
slaves
c)
freedmen
22.
During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule
a)
True
b)
False
23.
The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
a)
guarantees African Americans free speech
b)
Outlawed slavery in the United States
c)
gave African Americans the right to vote
d)
rejoined the South and the North
24.
The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
a)
Gave African Americans citizenship
b)
Gave African Americans the right to vote
c)
Freed the slaves
d)
Gave landowners the right to sharecrop
25.
The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...
a)
Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
b)
Freed the Slaves
c)
Gave African Americans the right to vote
d)
Forced African Americans back into slavery
26.
Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?
a)
Reunite the North and the South
b)
Rebuild the South
c)
Develop the system of sharecropping
d)
Determine what to do with African Americans
27.
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
a)
Nathan Bedford Forrest
b)
John Wilkes Booth
c)
Henry Clay
d)
John Breckinridge
28.
What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?
a)
Deciduous Democrats
b)
Radical Republicans
c)
Wistful Whigs
d)
Fancy Federalists
29.
Which of the following definitions apply to “impeach”?
a)
To remove an official from office
b)
To charge an official with a crime.
c)
To arrest an official for crimes.
d)
To put an official on trial for “mis-behavior in the White House”
30.
The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Freedman's Bureau
c)
Black Codes
d)
Jim Crow Laws
31.
The House of Representatives tried to get rid of President Andrew Johnson by doing what to him:
a)
impeaching him
b)
killing him
c)
bribing him to leave
d)
trying to get him out in the next election
32.
After an electoral dispute, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if he ended Reconstruction. This is often referred to as:
a)
Radical Election
b)
Compromise of 1877
c)
The corrupt bargain
d)
Illegal compromise
33.
What rights did Homer Plessy argue had been violated by the laws that segregated society?
a)
13th and 15th Amendments
b)
13th, and 14th Amendments
c)
14th and 16th Amendments
d)
14th and 15th Amendments
34.
What was the ruling of the Plessy v. Ferguson case? (Hint: Not just the verdict, but tell me the decision of the court.)
a)
Separate but equal
b)
Separate but unequal
35.
Which activist believed that African-Americans should quietly accept social segregation while receiving vocational training and working hard?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
c)
John Hope
d)
Alonzo Herndon
36.
Which activist believed that college educated African-Americans should lead speak out against discrimination and argue for full political, civil and social rights?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Tom Watson
d)
Lugenia Burns Hope
37.
What phrase did the Supreme Court use when it legalized segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson?
a)
that whites were "superior and different"
b)
that African Americans could be "separate but equal"
c)
that African Americans were "equal in the eyes of the law"
d)
that the Constitution provided "no civil rights protections under the law"
38.
Booker T. Washington, the most famous African American of the late nineteenth century, urged African Americans to...
a)
campaign against lynching and other forms of violence and discrimination.
b)
leave the South and form their own independent communities in the West.
c)
postpone the fight for civil rights and concentrate instead on economic goals.
d)
use education as a means to pursue full equality and civil rights.
39.
In the late nineteenth century, southern states passed Jim Crow laws in order to...
a)
ban the Populist Party.
b)
enforce discrimination.
c)
protect African Americans.
d)
put limits on voting rights.
40.
Who said this: "An education where I learn to use my hands will help me get a job and support my family"?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Abraham Lincoln
41.
Whites Only Water Fountain .... this sign represents what laws in the South?
a)
Racial Rules
b)
Lincoln Laws
c)
Black Codes
d)
Jim Crow
42.
Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group...
a)
Latinos
b)
African-Americans
c)
Native Americans
d)
Asians
43.
Segregation in the South was mainly based on...
a)
hair color
b)
religion
c)
race (color of the skin)
d)
economic status
44.
What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?
a)
Redskins vs Giants
b)
Aylor vs Byrd
c)
Brown vs Board of Education
d)
Plessy vs Ferguson
45.
Adopted in 1868, that makes all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves— citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws.
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
16th Amendment
46.
Adopted in 1870, that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
16th Amendment
47.
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
a)
W.E.B. Du Bois
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
d)
Booker T. Washington
48.
According to Booker T. Washington, what would help African Americans gain equality?
a)
Learning skills and trades
b)
Holding protests and strikes
c)
Attending meetings and elections
d)
Working longer and harder
49.
After Plessy v. Ferguson, southern states:
a)
became alarmed at the number of whites being killed by blacks.
b)
vowed to return political control to conservative Republicans.
c)
passed hundreds of segregation laws.
d)
took advantage of black farmers who could not pay their debts.
50.
What is one word that best describes Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction?
a)
Harsh
b)
Punitive
c)
Lenient
d)
Unfair
51.
Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?
a)
Democrats
b)
Radical Republicans
c)
Scalawags
d)
Carpetbaggers
52.
Who did the Radical Republicans attempt to impeach?
a)
Lincoln
b)
Johnson
c)
Grant
d)
Hayes
53.
Allowed slavery, but were a part of the Union _____________
a)
scalaway
b)
border stste
c)
carpetbagger
d)
civilian
54.
People who are not in the military _______________
a)
scalaway
b)
slave
c)
civilian
d)
home front
55.
The murder of a political leader is an ____________
a)
assassination
b)
emancipation
c)
segregation
d)
reconstruction
56.
The separation of races in schools, churches and elsewhere is called ____________________
a)
sharecropping
b)
scalaway
c)
segregation
d)
carpetbagger
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